Settings › Plugins (gear menu) gets Import Theme from IntelliJ IDE… (theme plugins of the JetBrains IDEs on this machine, the one each IDE uses first) and Import IntelliJ Theme from File… (a Marketplace .jar / .zip or a .theme.json). The host reads the plugin with size limits; the UI converts it with the IntelliJ mapping (moved from scripts/theme to src/features/plugins/intellijTheme.ts, still used by pnpm theme:import-intellij) into one OpenIDEA theme plugin (engines.openidea ^1.0) with all of its themes, installed through the usual install page, and applies the chosen theme. Theme pickers separate each plugin's themes, and Quick Switch Scheme › Theme previews the theme under the pointer or keyboard after 500 ms and restores the selected one when closed without a choice. Co-authored-by: ldg030201 <100822592+ldg030201@users.noreply.github.com>
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OpenIDEA brings the IntelliJ IDEA way of working — its keymap, its tool windows, its search-everything habits — to a native app with a Rust core.
Editor, code insight, debugger, Git, terminal, database and HTTP clients, for 60+ languages. Builds for macOS, Windows and Linux.
Benchmark
Opening freqtrade (Python, ~770 files) with warm caches, median of 5 runs:
| OpenIDEA | IntelliJ IDEA 2026.2.3 | |
|---|---|---|
| Window with the project | 0.9 s | 3.1 s |
| Ready (CPU settled) | 1.1 s | 13.2 s |
| Memory (USS, all processes) | 169 MB | 2011 MB |
| CPU time until ready | 2.4 s | 47.9 s |
| Idle CPU | 4 % of a core | 7 % of a core |
| Quit | 0.3 s | 5.9 s |
A release build of OpenIDEA from main and IDEA with default settings and plugins, on
Windows 11, 32-core AMD, 62 GB RAM.
IDEA analyses Python more deeply, so "ready" doesn't mean the same work on
both sides. Both are measured from the outside, the same way: see
perf/compare to run it on your machine and projects.
License
Apache 2.0. Bundled third-party assets are listed in THIRD_PARTY_LICENSES.md.
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